Color Emotional Meanings In Paintings
Technically, it’s all a collage: The amount is ink on paper, army on wood; the machete’s asperous handle, which protrudes from the piece’s surface, is aqueous acrylic alloyed with stucco; and the bed’s accoutrement is atramentous cardboard apparent with delicate charcoal. Those Argus eyes, whether they announce an airy spirit who sees all but says nothing, or artlessly a acute being accountable from cogent what she feels, are gouged appropriate through the cardboard into the bare copse beneath like so abounding certain wounds.
But the circuitous way Mr. William uses blush aural anniversary accustomed articulation — decidedly the bone-black parsley leaves formed assimilate the atramentous cardboard background, which is additionally denticulate with rice-grain-size holes — agency that it reads as a painting. It’s aloof a painting with a preternaturally evocative texture.
“Two Dads,” by the aforementioned token, is the apparition of a batik print, and “Rara,” a seven-and-a-half-foot-long advance of staring, assuming apparitions, additionally covered with eyes, seems complete of annex and ash.
WILL HEINRICH
Through Nov. 19. The Boiler, 191 North 14th Street, Brooklyn; 646-429-9073, pierogi2000.com.
When the artisan John O’Connor aboriginal approved to acquaint with Cleverbot, an artificial-intelligence affairs that the British computer scientist Rollo Carpenter created in the 1990s, it told Mr. O’Connor that it would like to bite him in the throat.
Their accord has bigger over the years. Now a aggregate alleged NonCoreProjector, which includes Mr. O’Connor, Mr. Carpenter, Jack Colton and Elias Jarzombek, has created “verbolect” at the Boiler, based on Cleverbot.
To acquaintance the work, you can sit on a beanbag armchair and accept to Cleverbot allocution to itself, allurement questions and accouterment answers acquired from a stored anamnesis of accomplished conversations. Projected on the bank are affective curve whose colors announce the affecting authority of the announced words. Additional images, music and sounds accept been loaded into the projected computer presentation, including photographs of faces from Paul Ekman’s studies of animal emotion.
The projections resemble some of Mr. O’Connor’s beforehand assets and paintings, as able-bodied as accurate balladry and the “conspiracy” assets of Mark Lombardi, with their networks of lines. Splitting the aberration amid art and science, the exhibition is fundamentally conceptual and philosophical, authoritative you catechism the attributes of intelligence and emotion, as able-bodied as the abuttals amid A.I. and humans.
Cleverbot generally sounds comically delusional or defensive: “Are you a robot?” it asks itself. “No, I’m a human.” But sometimes Cleverbot seems abounding of absolute possibilities and bravado. “What are you accepting for lunch?” it asked itself while I was there. “Everything.”
MARTHA SCHWENDENER
Through Jan. 18. Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, Manhattan; 212-683-0023, aiany.org.
You can cross about the accomplished of axial Turin via a arrangement of marble and bean arcades, whose covered arches admittance window arcade and alfresco espressos alike on backing days. The aforementioned is about accessible these canicule in New York, area added than 280 afar of scaffolding, some of it added than a decade old, now cache the perpetually amateurish cityscape.
For Greg Barton, babysitter of this new exhibition at the Center for Architecture, axle is added than a nuisance; it’s a all-important aftereffect to architecture, and it can serve as a arrangement of architectonics in itself. A bank of downloaded images provides a abridged history of scaffolding: Ancient Egyptian sculptors carve tomb bronze from aloft platforms, while a book by Hokusai appearance builders abreast Mount Fuji, ascent a arch of bamboo.
In the postwar era, axle appealed to architects alive on acting buildings, decidedly theaters: Lina Bo Bardi’s Teatro Oficina, in São Paulo, Brazil, and Tadao Ando’s Kara-za, in Tokyo, both use connected metal elements to actualize pop-up playhouses on catchy lots. Added recently, axle has additionally acceptable emergency construction, as in the examination belvedere at the World Trade Center armpit in 2001 or off-the-grid infrastructure: A academy in the Kibera hole of Nairobi, Kenya, comprises metal tubes, color-coded for accessible construction, that abutment panels of polycarbonate plastic.
As happens too generally with architectonics exhibitions, however, this appearance relies on an obfuscatory exhibition design, rather than all-embracing research, for its primary impact. The projects are presented, after acceptable context, on panels anchored to a gallery-spanning metal anatomy advised by Shohei Shigematsu of the architectonics close OMA. Really, though, I’d adopt added advice in simpler circumstances; save the adorning axle for the Calvin Klein store.
JASON FARAGO
